Abstract

© British Society of Aesthetics 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society of Aesthetics. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] Crowther’s most recent book How Pictures Complete Us marks a new phase in this prolific and sometimes iconoclastic philosopher’s oeuvre. Crowther—an aesthetician that engages equally with both analytic and continental traditions—is perhaps best known for his writing on Kant, his theory of ‘Supermodernity’ and for his commitment to a new form of phenomenological investigation, all in the name of Crowther’s primary concern, that is, the philosophical analysis of the nature of art.Despite Crowther’s expansive frame of reference and a writing career spanning almost three decades, nowhere has he previously—to my knowledge—made substantial recourse to theological argument. This book hence represents a break in continuity...